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Addiction Treatment: What Works?

Addiction Treatment: What Works? Do We Use “What Works?”

New Book Features Provocative Essays About Drug Addiction and its Treatment

***RADIO INTERVIEWS AVAILABLE WITH LEADING ADDICTION EXPERT & BOOK EDITOR/AUTHOR, Dr. JACK HENNINGFIELD***

Wednesday, December 5, 7:00-11:00 am est

WHAT: Drug addiction remains one of the nation’s most significant public health problems, accounting for 1 in 5 deaths and costing several hundred billion dollars, yet its treatment is a topic of intense debate and confusion. The media are permeated with stories of celebrities whose drug use is reported on as an excuse for bad behavior and lack of self control. The public sees their repeat visits to rehabilitation and assumes that treatment doesn’t work – or worse, they believe these visits are merely ploys to gain sympathy. Other people, desperate for treatment and determined to change, seek effective addiction treatment and never receive it. This book critically examines addiction treatment through a series of provocative essays by some of the nation’s foremost authorities, beginning with a thought-provoking introduction by former Surgeon General C. Everett Koop.

Dr. Jack Henningfield is a leading addiction expert and co-editor, along with Dr. Patricia Santora and Dr. Warren Bickel, of the new book, Addiction Treatment: Science and Policy for the 21st Century. He will be available to discuss the book and such provocative questions as:
Does addiction treatment work?
Is addiction the latest excuse for bad behavior?
Is drug addiction really a disease or just a personal choice reflecting lack of motivation to stop?
Should drug abusing pregnant women be prosecuted or treated?
Does prison help break the addiction cycle or fuel it?
Are the famous and wealthy able to gain access to better quality treatment?
What’s wrong with occasional non-addictive drug use?
Is it best to start treatment when the drug abuser reaches rock bottom?
Do people really need treatment or isn’t it really about self-control?
Does stigma drive people to or away from treatment?
What drug carries the highest risk of addiction and premature death?
Can emergency rooms help break the addiction cycle?

WHO: Jack E. Henningfield, Ph.D.,
Leading addiction scientist with broad experience in public communication including the media, testifying before the US Congress, World Health Organization, and other organizations
Director of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Awards Program at The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (www.InnovatorsAwards.org)
Adjunct Professor of Behavioral Biology at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine
Author of more than 300 papers on topics including public health, addiction and pharmacology
Expert consultant to the World Health Organization and many other national/international organizations
Vice President, Research and Health Policy, Pinney Associates (www.PinneyAssociates.com) consulting on addiction and tobacco treatment and other health and pharmaceutical issues

SPONSOR: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Innovators Combating Substance Abuse Awards Program at the
Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

**To schedule an interview, please contact Rebecca Janoff/Dennis Tartaglia at 212-481-7000 or rebeccaj@mbooth.com

Addiction Treatment: Science and Policy for the Twenty-First Century

FROM THE JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY PRESS

Addiction Treatment
Science and Policy for the Twenty-first Century
edited by Jack E. Henningfield, Patricia B. Santora, and Warren K. Bickel

Addiction to alcohol, tobacco, and other drugs is one of the major public health issues of our time. In the United States, one in five deaths is the result of addictive drug use. This innovative book critically examines drug addiction treatment in the United States. It explores specific challenges (scientific, medical, social, and legal) to reaching the goal that treatment for drug addiction should be as accessible as treatments of diseases of the heart, liver, and lungs that often result from the use of addictive drugs. These essays, written by leaders in addiction science, medicine, and health policy, present diverse and often opposing points of view to foster thought and discussion.

The book consists of three parts. Part I examines the emerging science and theories that underlie the development of specific models for treating addiction to illicit opioids and stimulants, alcohol, tobacco, and prescription drugs. Part II explores the complications raised by the diversity of those with addictions, ranging from pregnant women who use intravenous drugs, young men who abuse methamphetamines, youths who smoke cigarettes, to adults who abuse alcohol to those who smoke marijuana or abuse prescription drugs. Part III provides a detailed analysis of health care, social, and policy issues that challenge our views about addiction and its treatment. It addresses controversial topics such as whether addiction should be considred a disease or a behavior, whether addiction should be handled as a criminal offense or treated as a public health problem, and whether stigmatizing addiction is helpful or not. Throughout the book, compelling examples of addiction art explore the human side of addiction through the lens of visual artists' stunning insights into addiction and recovery.

Addiction Treatment provides a solid foundation for understanding addiction as a treatable illness and for establishing a framework for effective treatment in the twenty-first century.

Jack E. Henningfield is an adjunct professor of behavioral biology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine and vice president for research and health policy at Pinney Associates, a consulting firm in Bethesda, Maryland, that specializes in science policy and regulatory issues concerning public health, medication development, and treatment of tobacco addiction. Patricia B. Santora is an assistant professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. Warren K. Bickel is Wilbur D. Mills Chair of Alcoholism and Drug Abuse Prevention and is the director of the Center for Substance Abuse Treatment at the University of Arkansas Medical Sciences.

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